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If all dogs are inherently good...


...then explain Carface and his goons.

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Not all dogs are good, they just all go to heaven. Not all catholics are good either but they believe if you say a few hail mary's before you kick the bucket you're good to go.

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I find it hard to believe that all Dogs go to heaven. Are you telling me all the nice little doggies have to deal little leg humping dogs for all eternity....sounds like hell to me.

"You are tearing me apart, Lisa!"" The Room..a cinematic masterpiece.

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I think it's a fairly logical system when you think about it. Just because it's Heaven doesn't mean it's paradise for everyone. Charlie didn't like it because it was boring and placid. Carface would have hated it because it's soft, squishy, and probably no cars. So just because it's Heaven doesn't mean it's necessarily a reward. It could also be a punishment. And if you escape by winding your watch, you go to the actively punishing hell unless you redeem yourself.

Kind of like that episode of The Twilight Zone (spoilers on this), where the gangster died and went to "Heaven", where he partied constantly, won every casino game, got every girl he wanted, until he was so bored that he begged to go to hell, when it was revealed that he really WAS in hell.

It makes sense to ME, anyway. But probably not to anyone else. MORONS! I'M SURROUNDED BY MORONS!

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I'm going to assume that all dogs go to heaven because they are "inherently good and loyal" due to the fact that they didn't have to deal with the issue of the tree of knowledge. Humans were sinless until the apple incident, so I'm guessing that all other species are still considered sinless, even though in this movie they act otherwise.

Eh, it's all semantics.


Everything in your life teaches you something.

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I All Dogs go to Heaven

Did we order this diner to go?cause there they go!
-hyena- the Lion King


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I think this is just here as a comforting message to the children. That way if their dog ever bites someone and has to get put down, you don't need to distress themselves over if their dog goes to Heaven or not. All dogs go to heaven so that's that.

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There is a difference between inherent nature and making a choice to do bad things.

Prof. Farnsworth: Oh. A lesson in not changing history from Mr. I'm-My-Own-Grandpa!

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The influence of humans corrupted them



I am the son of a man named Tom.

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I was going to post something like things.

I think the movie wants to tell us that dogs started getting corrupted in the 1930s by human influence. They started gambling, drinking and killing.

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Interesting, I don't remember anything about that. Regarding the 1930s, is the reference to the "immediate suspect" connected to World War II and the Holocaust, or is it more about the criminal organizations that were prevalent in American cities during that era? It might lean toward the second option, given the themes of gambling and drinking, as well as the villain, who undoubtedly behaves like a figure from a mob crime organization. Maybe hint to Great Depression era?

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I think the movie's title was intended to be ironic or a belief among the characters that turns out not to be entirely true. Also see AMERICAN TALE's "There are No Cats in America" song.

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